Car-truck



(No Model.)

C. W. HUNT.

GAR TRUGK.

No. 454,273. Patented June 16, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.

eHARIIEs w. HUNT, or wEsTNEw BRIGHTON, NEw YORK.

CAR-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,273, dated J une 16, 1891. Applicationfiled February 16, 1891. Serial No. 381,598. (No model.)

To al? whom t may concern.:

Be It known that I, CHARLES V. HUNT, a

-citizen of the United States, residing at Vest My present invention is made/for dispensing with the triangular frame by applying a king-bolt and its socket between the bearer over the\axle and the car-body, whereby the king-bolt and bearing prevent the axle Inov- -ing endwise as such axle swings on the kingbolt in passing over thetrack.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of my improvement, and Fig. 2 isa vertical section at the king-bolt. f

The car-frame A is shown as connected with the journal-boxes D by the links I, pivoted at their lower ends to downward projections or pedestals A beneath the car-frame A, and usually the springs G will intervene between the cross-bar I-I, to which the links I are connected, and the j ournal-boxes D, and these links and springs may be between the wheels, as show n in my said patent; but I prefer to place them outside of the wheels, as

represented herein, and Athere is a bearer or sleeve E over the axle C to prevent the axle Inoving endwise of such bearer, and this bearer is connected bythe king-bolt 5 and a tubular socket 6 with the car-frame A.

The socket G may be upon the frame A and the king-bolt 5 upon the bearer E, or the reaxle travel npon curved tracks with reliabilverse, and this'tubnlar socket may be pro- Vid ed with a iiange bolted to the frameA for sustaining the parts in their proper positions, as the axle and wheels can swing more or less in moving over a curved track.

The links I that sustain the weight tend to restore the axle to a position at right angles to the car-frame when not otherwise acted upon, and the king-bolt becomes a pivot upon which the parts' can turn, and this and the bearers over the axle prevents the axle moving endwise in relation to the car-frame, and the two wheels with outside iianges upon oneity because the flange of the inner wheel coming against the outside of the inner rail tends to turn the axle into the proper radial posit-ion in traveling over the curve.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, with the two car-wheels and a connecting-axle having external journals and a frame and bearings outside of the wheels, of a king-bolt and its socket at the middle part of the axle, and a bearing between the king-bolt and the axle for preventing end movement of the axle, substantial] y as set forth.

2. The combination, with the axle-boxes, axle, andwheels having iianges on the outside, and connections between the axle-boxes and car-frame outside the wheels, of a central king-bolt at the middle part of the axle and its connections to the axle and frame, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this l2th day of February,

CI'IAS. XV. HUNT.

Vitnesses: Y

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM G. Morr. 

